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CALL FOR PAPERS
2009 Middleware for Web Services
(MWS 2009) Workshop
Held at
the EDOC 2009
conference in Auckland, New Zealand
Paper
submission deadline: 31 May 2009
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About the Workshop
During the past several
years, Web services technologies have become very prominent in both the
research community and the industry. Web services are distributed computing
application components that use a number of Extensible Markup Language
(XML) based technologies to implement the service-oriented architecture
(SOA). Implementation-independence of Web services technologies allows
different businesses to collaborate and achieve common business goals
despite the fact that the collaborating Web services can be distributed over
the Internet, run on different platforms, and implemented in different
programming languages. Web services technologies are already embedded in
various products and services of all major computing companies and used for
diverse purposes. An important application area is e-business process
integration in business-to-business (B2B) and/or enterprise application
integration (EAI) scenarios. Additionally, Web service technologies became
the basis for several other recent distributed computing technologies, such
as Grid services, Cloud computing and Semantic Web services.
Middleware plays an
important role for Web services technologies. Reusable Web services
technologies are implemented in middleware, so appropriate middleware is a
prerequisite for the growing acceptance of these technologies. For example,
implementation independence of Web services is achieved using middleware,
such as application servers and/or SOAP engines (software that analyzes,
processes, and generates SOAP messages). In addition, middleware solutions
have been proposed to provide, monitor, and manage quality of service (QoS)
aspects, such as response time, throughput, availability, reliability,
security, and privacy.
The goal of this workshop is
to bring together industrial, academic, and government researchers and
developers interested in Web services and middleware technologies.
Through paper presentations and discussions, this workshop will contribute
to the exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination of results about
completed and on-going research projects, as well as identification and
analysis of remaining open research issues.
Continuing the great
successes of the past years, we invite practitioners and academic
researchers alike to submit papers to Middleware for Web Services 2009. Papers
presenting and analyzing completed projects are particularly welcome.
Papers about on-going research projects are also welcome, especially if
they contain critical analysis of already achieved results and remaining
open research issues. In addition, we invite papers about experiences and
comparative analysis of middleware-related issues for Web services. We
especially encourage submissions from industry. While the focus of the
workshop is middleware for Web services, we are also interested in papers discussing
the use of Web services as a middleware technology for utility computing,
telecommunications, e-business, e-government, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems,
distributed artificial intelligence, spontaneous networks, and other
application areas, including "middleware as service" offerings
from the open source community.
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Topics of Interest
(include, but are not limited to)
- Application servers for
Web services
- Aspect-oriented Web
services middleware
- Autonomic computing
solutions for Web services and/or using Web services
- Best practices and
patterns for Web services middleware
- Comparative analysis of
middleware issues for Web services and other technologies (e.g.,
CORBA)
- Industrial experiences
with Web services middleware
- Middleware for Cloud
Computing, Grid services and Utility Computing
- Middleware for discovery
and/or selection of Web services
- Middleware for
choreography and/or orchestration of Web services
- Middleware for
Web-services based Semantic Web
- Middleware for Web
services-based workflows
- Middleware for Web
services executing in mobile, embedded, and ubiquitous/pervasive
environments
- Monitoring and management
middleware for Web services
- Negotiation middleware
for Web services
- Policy-based middleware
for Web services
- Quality of service
middleware for Web services
- Query middleware for Web
services
- Reputation and/or trust
middleware for Web services
- Reliability,
dependability, and fault-tolerance middleware for Web services
- Security and/or privacy
middleware for Web services
- Service-oriented
middleware
- SOAP engines
- Web services as a
middleware technology
- Restful Web services
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The Past Workshops
Middleware is traditionally one of
the main topics in the EDOC (Enterprise Distributed Object Computing)
community. Web services are quickly becoming a key technology within
enterprise computing, making it one of the central topics of the EDOC conferences.
For this reason, the
Middleware for Web Services (MWS) workshops were organised at EDOC for the
past four years: 2005,
2006, 2007 and 2008. The
workshops were successful, as they gathered academic, industrial, and
government researchers and developers interested in Web services and/or
middleware technology, many of whom have not attended previous EDOC
conferences. Several regular EDOC attendees, some of whom have extensive
experience with middleware for other distributed computing technologies,
but not yet Web services, also attended the workshops. The keynote speakers
(Dr. Heiko Ludwig from IBM Research at MWS 2005, Professor Lionel M. Ni
from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology at MWS 2006, Dr.
Patrick C.K. Hung from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology at
MWS 2007 and A/Prof. Luciano Baresi from Politecnico di Milano, Dr. Rui
Carlos Oliveira from University of Minho at MWS 2008) and the panelists
were praised for the insights they passed to the audience. This all lead to
useful exchanges of ideas, improvement of understanding of wider research
issues, and clearer identification of important open research issues and
possible approaches towards their solution. Another group of successful
recent workshop in this area were Middleware
for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC) 2006 held at Middleware
2006 and Middleware for Service
Oriented Computing (MW4SOC) 2007 held at Middleware 2007, Middleware for Service Oriented
Computing (MW4SOC) 2008 at Middleware 2008. We have now established
close collaboration and coordination between the MWS workshops at EDOC
conferences and the MW4SOC workshops at Middleware
conferences. To further the achievements of all these past workshops
and to facilitate scientific growth of this important area, we now organize
the Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2009 workshop at EDOC 2009.
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Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to
submit previously unpublished, high-quality papers before 31 May 2009.
Papers published or submitted elsewhere will be automatically rejected.
Two types
of submissions are solicited:
* Full papers – describing
mature research or industrial case studies – up to 8-10 pages long
* Short papers – describing work
in progress or position statements – up to 4 pages long
Submissions should be in the IEEE Computer Society conference paper format. Guidelines and
templates for this format are available here.
An online submission system will be available at:
MWS2009 EasyChair Conference System
All submissions should include the author's name, affiliation and contact
details. The preferred format is Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
Inquiries about paper submission should be e-mailed to
Dr. Helen Paik (hpaik at cse dot unsw dot edu dot au) and include
"MWS2009" in the Subject line.
All submissions will be formally peer-reviewed by at least 3
Program Committee members. The authors will be notified of acceptance by 12
July 2009. At least one author of every accepted paper MUST register for
the Workshop and present the paper. The proceedings of EDOC 2009 workshops will be published after the conference as ePub by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) and the IEEE Xplore. There will be a single electronic volume containing proceedings from all workshops.
Electronic versions of the papers will be published on the Workshop Web site.
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Important Dates
- Paper submission
deadline: 31 May 2009
- Paper acceptance
notification: 12 July 2009
- Camera ready of papers:
27 July 2009
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Workshop Chairs
- Dr. Helen Hye-young Paik , School of Computer
Science & Engineering, The University of New South Wales,
Australia, e-mail: hpaik (server: cse.unsw.edu.au)
- Dr. Karl Michael Göschka, Distributed Systems
Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria, e-mail: Karl.Goeschka (server: tuwien.ac.at)
- Dr. Aad van Moorsel, School of Computing
Science, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom,
e-mail: aad.vanmoorsel (server: ncl.ac.uk)
- Dr. Raymond Wong, School of Computer
Science & Engineering, The University of New South Wales,
Australia; NICTA, Australia; and Green Pea Software, Australia,
e-mail: wong (server: cse.unsw.edu.au) or raymond (server:
greenpea.net)
- Dr. Ian Warren, Department of Computer
Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, e-mail: ian-w
(server: cs.auckland.ac.nz)
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Workshop Program Committee (Full and
Up-To-Date List To Be Advised)
- Sergio Andreozzi, U. of Bologna,
Italy
- Danilo Ardagna ,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Djamal Benslimane, U. of
Lyon 1, France
- Siddhartha Bose, Applied Research
and Technology Centre, Motorola, India
- Paul Brebner, NICTA,
Australia
- Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc.,
USA
- Fabio Casati, University
of Trento, Italy
- Nick Cook, U. of
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna
U. of Technology, Austria
- Babak Esfandiari,
Carleton U., Canada
- Chirine Ghedira, U. of
Lyon 1, France
- Xiaofeng Gong, U. of
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Hakim Hacid,
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
- Alexander Keller, IBM
Global Technology Services, USA
- Shonali Krishnaswamy,
Monash U., Australia
- Franky Lam, Microsoft,
USA
- Marin Litoiu, York University,
Canada
- Anna Liu, U. New South Wales,
Australia
- Jenny Liu, NICTA,
Australia
- Hanan Lutfiyya, U. of
Western Ontario, Canada
- Zakaria Maamar, Zayed U.,
UAE
- Hamid Reza Motahari
Nezhad, HP Lab, USA
- Mourad Ouzzani, Purdue
U., USA
- Pierluigi Plebani,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Dick A.C. Quartel, U. of
Twente, The Netherlands
- Omer F. Rana, Cardiff U.,
UK
- Claudia Raibulet, U. of
Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Dumitru Roman,
Semantic Technology Institute / U. of Innsbruck, Austria
- Regis Saint-Paul, CREATE-NET,
Italy
- Halvard Skogsrud, ThoughtWorks, Australia
- Yazhe Tang, Xi’an
Jiaotong U., China
- Farouk Toumani, LIMOS, Blaise Pascale U.,
France
- Kunal Verma, Accenture
Technology Labs, USA
- Chunyang Ye, U. of Toronto, Canada
- George Yee, Carleton University,
Canada
- Wenbing Zhao, Cleveland State U.,
USA
- Liming Zhu, NICTA,
Australia
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